Imagine a Shazam for real world sounds that alerts your phone or turns on the lights when glass breaks. That’s what British startup Audio Analytic is all about. Bloomberg’s Hello World host Ashlee Vance speaks with founder and CEO Chris Mitchell on how artificial intelligence (AI) can protect your home (runtime: 3:28). So much glass was broken in the meantime for the technology to recognize the sounds, “windows that would literally fill warehouses [for months]. Different sizes, different thickness, different types of glass,” says Mitchell. Smoke alerts and baby crying can also be detected. For more AI, TechCrunch has top 15 AI stories in 2016 spanning from supercomputers and machine learning, to airspace and drones — Google comes up in 6 of them. And TechRepublic’s Hope Reese has top 2017 AI trends to expect: more AI in our lives, moral issues like algorithmic fairness, and more hacking. The latter is echoed by Bloomberg’s Ilya Khrennikov who writes, “Potential leaks of personal user data collected by internet giants and online services will be one of the major cyber-security threats of 2017, according to computer safety company Kaspersky Lab.” 78 percent of users considered quitting social media over fear of spying but didn’t because of their memories out there, the company found. We hear you, Kaspersky.